LINNEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON. liii 



21. The Characters of several rare and undescribed Shells. — 

 Phil. Mag. lxi. p. 375, & lxii. p. 401. 



22. On the Natural Affinities of the Lepidoptera Diurna of 

 Latreille. — Ibid. ser. 2. i. p. 180. 



23. Synopsis of the Birds discovered in Mexico by W. Bullock, 

 F.L.S., and W. Bullock, Jun.— Ibid. ser. 2. i. p. 364, & p. 433. 



24. On the Nut-hatch (JSitta Puropcea). — Mag, Nat. Hist. i. 

 p. 328. 



25. On the Natural History and Eelations of the Family of 

 Cuculidce.—Mag. Zool. fy Pot. i. p. 213, & p. 430. 



The titles of this long list of publications sufficiently indicate 

 the wide scope of his zoological acquirements. He became deeply 

 imbued, at an early period, with Mr. W. S. MacLeay's views on 

 the circular succession of affinities, and the strict numerical re- 

 lations of the several groups ; and carried out these principles, 

 with some peculiar modifications of his own, through nearly all 

 the classes of the animal kingdom. As a zoological draughtsman 

 he also attained high distinction, combining the skill of a practised 

 artist with the accuracy of a well-instructed naturalist, and thus 

 giving to his representations of animals a double interest as 

 accurate copies of nature embellished by a refined taste in art. 



The Pev. William Webb, P.P., Master of Clare Hall in the 

 University of Cambridge, was the son of "William Webb, M.A., 

 Master of Bishop Vesey's Grammar-school at Sutton-Coldfield, 

 near Birmingham, and a magistrate of the county of "Warwick. 

 He was born at Sutton-Coldfield in February 1775, and educated 

 at home until sent to Clare Hall in 1793, where he took his 

 degrees of B.A. 1797, M.A. 1800, B.D. 1808, and D.D. 1816. 

 He became Fellow and Tutor of his College, and in 1815 was 

 unanimously elected Master, which office he filled for the long 

 period of forty-one years, during which he was twice Vice- Chan- 

 cellor of the University. Previous to his election as Master, he 

 held for a short time the living of Fornham near Bury St. Ed- 

 munds, and subsequently that of Litlington near Cambridge. At 

 this place, during his incumbency, in the year 1821, a Roman 

 cemetery was opened, which yielded an extraordinary store of 

 sepulchral vessels. These are now preserved in the library at 

 Clare Hall, and are described in two papers in the ' Archaeologia,' 

 vols. 25 and 26, accompanied by plates from drawings made by 

 Mrs. "Webb. By this lady, to whom he was married in 1815, 

 during his short connexion with the rectory of Fornham, he had 

 several children, one of whom, a son, alone survives. Dr. "Webb 



